<p>Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1C or 4CW. Study of selected texts from Age of Enlightenment to 20th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Diderot, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Goethe, Ibsen, James Joyce, Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Garcia Marquez, Rousseau, M. Shelley, Strindberg, Swift, Voltaire. Analysis of texts includes focus on structures, processes, and practices that generate inter-group inequities or conflicts as well as those that support fairness and inclusiveness. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.</p>

Comparative Literature

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College of Letters and Science

The department is committed to continuing its pioneering work in defining new literary paradigms and fostering new directions for exploration in literary studies.

General Catalog

Survey of Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century

COMLIT2CW

5 units